ATOLL TREE

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Atoll Tree
is a nuclear bomb simulator application that will show the actual death count
and cost of destruction, once a nuclear bomb is detonated in a city.

The game’s
primary objective is to educate the current generation, of what nuclear weapons
are, their history, who has them, and why they can wipe out the entire human
civilization.

Hopefully, millions
of players will then support Nuclear Disarmament, and persuade our world
leaders to get rid of nuclear weapons once and for all.

FREE APP SIMULATION GAME

To educate
and reach millions of people, Atoll Tree will be released thru HTML 5 (Web
Browser) and as mobile game apps thru app store (iphones/ipad) and google play
(android).

AUDIO

I mixed different
sound effects to give the player a feeling of what is it like to be in a city
seconds away from a nuclear bomb attack, and minutes after the detonation.

DEATH COUNT CALCULATION

To give an
accurate death count, I researched the destructive radius of each bomb in the
game, including the fireball radius and blast radius.

If any
living thing is caught inside the blast radius itself, they will be killed
instantly.

I excluded
the much more larger nuclear fallout radius, because it will be hard to
calculate the survival percentage of the fallout, which includes third degree
burns, and amputations.

So having
the population data per kilometer square of the city, I was able to calculate
the death toll according the the blast radius area of each bomb.

DAMAGES DOLLAR CALCULATION

This one is
tricky, and the truth is, I can only come up with an out of the ballpark
figure. I can never know
the price of each square meter of real estate space in New York City (this
includes each floor of any building) given the resources I have. I do have
the data that shows the market value of New York, which is 1.08 Trillion
Dollars.

We can then
divide this value per square kilometer of the entire city, which will give me
an estimate of the property value per square kilometer.

The blast
radius of the bomb will have an overpressure of 20 psi, that will destroy or
demolish any heavily built concrete buildings.

All I have
to do is to calculate the blast radius and the property value of that area.

THE BOMBS

Little Boy : First Nuclear Bomb ever used in warfare.

Fat Man: Second
Nuclear Bomb ever used in warfare.

Topol : Russian Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

B-83 :
Largest bomb in current US arsenal

Dong Feng 5
: China’s current Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

Castle Bravo: Code name of test of the first US hydrogen bomb that was dropped on Bikini
Atoll, Marshall Islands.

Tsar Bomba: Most powerful nuclear bomb ever detonated in human history. This hydrogen bomb
was tested by Russia on October 30, 1961.

RELEASE

I am
targeting March 1, 2015 as the date of release to coincide with 61st
Anniversary of the detonation of the Castle Bravo Bomb on Bikini Atoll (March
1, 1954)

SUPPORT

Support the
App, let everyone get involved, spread this webpage, on facebook or twitter.

We encourage you also to post comments with regards to the game, your thoughts, your suggestions, anything that will help make this app more reliable and realistic, and of course, educational.